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After the reception the delegates will devote the remaining six days to discussion. Some of the topics will be internationalization of the atomic bomb, federal aid to education, aiding of exchange students, relief for foreign students, and formulating American plans for international student organization.
In November 1944 Inventor Hogan unloaded half his duties at WQXR to devote more time to facsimile research begun some twelve years ago (TIME, Feb. 14, 1944). He got 20 broadcasters (twelve of them publishers) to put up $250,000 for his experiments. Now his finished product looks so good...
The commission would consist of a chairman ($17,500 a year) and four other civilians ($15,000) appointed by the President, subject to Senate approval. They would serve staggered five-year terms and would devote themselves exclusively to the commission's tasks.
The boss of Mexican baseball, Jorge Pasquel (TIME, March 11), was having his fun too. The brothers Pasquel, aware that U.S. Baseball Commissioner A. B. ("Happy") Chandler had not said a vigorous word against them, blithely offered to make him commissioner of Mexican baseball, at the same salary ($50,006...
Author Flynn gestated Showdown (Sheridan House; $2.50) in nightly, four-hour stretches over a period of nine months. The novel, laid in the South Seas, features lusts, busts, tropic moons and cheesecake. "I don't know why I did it," confessed Author Flynn (who is considering making only one...